Taman Rimba Kiara is a little green gem located in a corner of the TTDI residential area. The above flowering tree, the firmiana malayana or mata lembu, flashes in testimony to man's care-less-ness - it's one of only two trees in the park that had flowered, since then the tree had been chopped down.

Thursday, 26 September 2024

Hardly a happy 'strike'

 It has been one long-distance relationship after another, and as exasperating, short-term too!

And here's another, the Tiger Shrike (Lanius tigrinus) that got spooked by the sudden appearance of long-tailed macaques, not to re-emerge.


Refresher (extract mybis):
Order - Passeriformes
Family - Laniidae
Genius - Lanius
Specific epithet - tigrinus (Drapiez, 1828)
Common name: Thick-billed Shrike, Tiger Shrike, Tiger Strike, Tirjub Harimau, Tirjub Rimau
Status: Least Concern

03/2024




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